Login with $ symbol

[pgelos]

Does anybody know how to create user with disallowed symbol $ in login in Unixware 7.1.0 or in SCO OpenServer 5.0.5. For Samba PDC (2.2.5) setup we need to create user machine
account with $ in the end of login.
Can someone please help me? Thanks for replying.
Oleg Pavlov, Kiev, Ukraine (Express-Bank)

 

[apeasecpc]

You can try creating a normal login and then editing the /etc/passwd file and renaming the corresponding /tcb/files/auth file to the login you are trying to create. I do not know if this will work, but it's the only possibility I can think of.

If you try this, be sure to make a backup first, and keep a superuser login connected while you test it because you could wind up damaging all of your user accounts and not being able to log in if you aren't careful.

 

[stanhubble]

don't think that you can....but
samba usernames do not have to be the same as unix usernames. the smbusers file provides a map between the two systems. the other question is whether or not samba will accept a username with the meta character in it.